Nature, wildlife, outdoors and countryside books. Read at your leisure. Mostly non-fiction with a few fiction.
created by Earthworman
last updated June, 2026
Why Fish Donât Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life
Lulu Miller
The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
ZoĂŤ Schlanger
Ocean: Earthâs Last Wilderness
David Attenborough
Raising Hare: A Memoir
Chloe Dalton
The Lie of the Land: Who Really Cares for the Countryside?
Guy Shrubsole
Common Ground
Rob Cowen
Chasing the Ghost: My Search for all the Wild Flowers of Britain
Peter Marren
Wilding
Isabella Tree
The Living Mountain
Nan Shepherd
Wildwood: A Journey through Trees
Roger Deakin
Great Circle
Maggie Shipstead
Working with Nature: Saving and Using the Worldâs Wild Places
Jeremy Purseglove
Metazoa: Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind
Peter Godfrey-Smith
Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness
Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis
Annie Proulx
The Place of Tides
James Rebanks
English Pastoral: An Inheritance
The Shepherd's Life: A Tale of the Lake District
Bitch: On the Female of the Species
Lucy Cooke
Endless Forms: The Secret World of Wasps
Seirian Sumner
I Belong Here: A Journey Along the Backbone of Britain
Anita Sethi
Unearthed: On Race and Roots, and How the Soil Taught Me I Belong
Claire Ratinon
Feral: Rewilding the Land, Sea and Human Life
George Monbiot
Regeneration: The Rescue of a Wild Land
Andrew Painting
The Last Wilderness, A Journey into Silence
Neil Ansell
The Lost Rainforests of Britain
Into the Tangled Bank: In Which Our Author Ventures Outdoors to Consider the British in Nature
Lev Parikian
Rooted: Stories of Life, Land and a Farming Revolution
Sarah Langford
Wild Fell: Fighting for Nature on a Lake District Hill Farm
Lee Schofield
Curlew Moon
Mary Colwell
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